Athenahealth, Epic and Other EHR Vendors Adopt Carequality Interoperability Framework

Five major health IT vendors, including service provider Surescripts, are the first organizations to implement the data sharing principles and will benefit from “accelerated, less costly health data sharing agreements”

Five major health IT vendors – athenahealth, Epic, eClinicalWorks, NextGen Healthcare and Surescripts – have signed on to be the first to implement Carequality’s framework for interoperability and data sharing principles, the organization announced Thursday.

Carequality, a Washington, D.C.-based public-private collaborative and an initiative of The Sequoia Project, released its interoperability framework in December, which consisted of multiple elements, including legal terms, policy requirements, technical specifications, and governance processes. The Framework operationalizes data sharing under the previously-approved principles of trust—the policy foundation for connecting health data sharing networks throughout the U.S.

Dave Cassel, director of Carequality, said the adoption of the framework by the five health IT vendors represents “a major leap forward for nationwide interoperability.” For the full article click here 

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